Why hasn't Wacky Races been picked up as a live action movie yet? Or at the very least a full length cartoon movie to really give Dick Dastardly and Muttley a chance to shine.
I do love those old Hanna-Barbera cartoons - Top Cat (Sgt Bilko with cats, how could it go wrong?), Yogi Bear, the Flintstones, Hong Kong Phooey (number one super guy), all good stuff, but Wacky Races was the cream of the crop. Maybe it depends on your age, but I look at kids cartoons now and they just look bizarre to me - badly animated, hopelessly written and the product of a crazed mind - I still like the old cartoon sitcom style, definitely had a lot going for it.
And I've always wanted a Double Zero (Dick Dastardly's car) - a groovy full-size one that I could roar down the motorway in. When I was growing up, there seemed to be gimmicky cars all over the place - I remember specifically as a kid seeing the Jaffamobile, which was promoting Jaffa Oranges, and was basically a giant orange on wheels - probably profoundly unsafe to drive, but fun! When I was driving with my chum down to London last year, we passed a guy driving a customised bumper car down the motorway (a dodgem car is probably what you call them in the US) - he wasn't going very fast, but he was clearly having a damn good time doing it!
So yes please, Dick Dastardly's Double Zero for me for Xmas! Thanks! If you come for a drive with me, you get to wear the Muttley costume, and how cool is THAT?!
Welly x
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my all time favorite Hanna-Barbera cartoon?......well that would have to be laugh-o-lympics.
Oh yeah with the scooby-doobies, ummm....who else the dasterdly rottens I think and.....hmmm......yogi bearies?
Anyway they had the pink panther as a commentator...exit stage left even......and all the hanna barbera charactors.
Although will have to say the the new cartoon for the most part suck. Some of the better ones out there are "the grim adventures of billy and mandy", "Fosters home for imaginary friends", "Dexter".......oh yeah and how can we forget "spongebob squarepants".....but I digress
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS HANDS DOWN. THE IDEA OF SOPHEAVA IN WHACKY RACES AS A CERTAIN PINKIFIED LADY & HER PINK MOBILE
oh yeah...dungeons and dragons was very cool. Of course I know that Sopheava loved "the gummi bears" cartoon so I had to give them props.